Mental disorders, autonomy and mental capacity

Tuesday 12 January 2010

Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE

Registration Details:
RSM Fellow: £50
RSM Associate: £50
RSM Trainee: £40
RSM Student: £25
RSM Retired Fellow: £25
Consultant/GP: £145
Trainee: £80
AHP/Nurse/Midwife: £80
AHP/Nurse/Midwife: £45
Charity/Voluntary Sector: £45
Student: £35
Bursary: Free of charge

Meeting ref: PY-J10-4

CPD (Applied for)



9.00 am

Registration and coffee

9.30 am

What is autonomy and why do we value it?
Professor Wayne Martin, Department of Philosophy, University of Essex

10.15 am

Where are we now in English mental health law?: the MCA, the MHA and the ECHR
Professor Genevra Richardson, Professor of Law, School of Law, King's College London

11.00 am

Coffee

11.30 am

Epidemiology of mental capacity
Professor Matthew Hotopf, Professor of General Hospital Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London

12.15 pm

Mental capacity, psychopathology and insight
Dr Gareth Owen, Wellcome Trust Fellow, Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London

1.00 pm

Lunch

Assessing capacity in challenging groups

2.00 pm

Anorexia nervosa
Dr Anne Stewart, Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford

2.30 pm

Personality disorder
Dr Paul Moran, Clinical Senior Lecturer, Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London

3.00 pm

Brain injury
Dr Simon Fleminger, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, Maudsley Hospital, London

3.30 pm

Tea

Debate: Ought we to fuse the MHA and the MCA?

4.00 pm

Yes
Professor George Szmukler, Professor of Psychiatry and Society, Chairman, Health and Society Network, King's College London
and Dr Frank Holloway, Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director, Croydon Integrated Adult Mental Health Service, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust

No
Professor Tony Maden, Division of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Imperial College London
and Professor Tony David, Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London

5.30 pm

Close of meeting

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